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Profit Wars

by Mac Whitesides

Profit Wars (ISBN 9781478796692) is a 270-page military thriller set in Atlanta and Romania in the year 2020. In my novel the protagonist, Jake, is an emotionally damaged man who witnesses the murder of his family. As he is trying to piece his life back together he learns of his company’s corporate malfeasance and personal betrayal. He also discovers a heretofore unknown older sister of his adopted daughter in the person who his company is determined to destroy. This knowledge will prove fatal t... more

The Damage Done: A Louis Kincaid Thriller

by PJ Parrish

Louis Kincaid is wearing a badge again -- as part of an elite homicide squad. But the return to his Michigan home comes at the bidding of a man who once vowed to destroy him. When the cold case deaths of two little boys collides with the white-hot murder of a mega-church minister, Louis finds himself fighting to unearth the secret past of his police captain -- and the demons of his own childhood.

Who killed her husband

by alekhya talapatra

Amid the snow-clad peaks and emerald green valleys of Europe, a man offers a lift to a beautiful girl. Hours later, his body is found in a mangled car. Thousands of miles away, his estranged wife looks around with satisfaction at her unique resort, a home away from home, not for tired humans, but for their beloved pets. When Bipasha’s marriage to Arin Roy Chowdhury crumbled, she had nothing to fall back on except her wits and a beautiful body. That was enough. Refusing to fade into oblivion ... more

Fatal Legislation

by Ellen Butler

One moment, Capitol Hill lobbyist Karina Cardinal is having a heated discussion with Senator Harper, who just torpedoed her latest health care legislation initiative. The next, he’s dead at her feet. Hours later, she’s still so rattled she forgets close her back door. Or did she? Then her boyfriend, FBI cybercrimes expert Mike Finnegan, has bad news. The senator’s death was an assassination, and Karina’s a “person of interest”. Certain that status could change to “suspect” at any moment, Kari... more

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by J. Gregory Smith

Military contractor Kyle Logan’s luck has gone from bad to worse ever since he returned home to Philadelphia following an injury by an IED in Iraq. First, his marriage crumbles, then his career after he’s pushed to the brink and assaults his wife’s lover, who is also her divorce attorney. When Kyle’s shady best friend turns up and offers him a “once in a lifetime” chance to regain his job and his life, all for just a couple night’s work, Kyle figures he’s got nothing to lose. The police, Phi... more

Choice of Enemies

by Michael A.. Richards

A tale of greed, betrayal, and vengeance, CHOICE OF ENEMIES is the first in a series of espionage novels featuring Nathan Monsarrat, a former Central Intelligence Agency operative with an extensive knowledge of Africa and expertise in weapons, women, and Benjamins. Light sweet crude is the mother’s milk of the Niger Delta. As the price for each barrel rises on the international markets and the stakes for securing the black gold increase, a consortium of American oil companies and the Central Int... more

The Rigel Affair

by L M Hedrick

Abandoned by his part-Cherokee Ma, Charlie Kincaid escapes servitude with his uncle. He jumps a boxcar, accompanied by his schoolmate Roxy, who is escaping troubles of her own. Charlie becomes a US Navy Diver. Mattie Blanc is from a genteel New Zealand family. But when her brother’s friend persuades her to take a ride, it all goes horribly wrong. Desperate, she flees her family’s stifling expectations for a new life in Auckland. After the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack, Charlie sets sail for Aucklan... more

The Enigma Source

by Breakfield and Burkey

The world is almost ready for fiat currency to be replaced by a superior digital currency. The trouble is, which one and who will own it? The R-Group is back and trying to guide the players to a safe destination in the complex world of cryptocurrency. The Global Bank has tasked Tonya to find and hire a cryptologist to create a new global cryptocurrency, though sometimes it seems she may not be up to the task. Along the way it appears she is the one getting played.

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Death's Detective: The Malykant Mysteries, Volume 1

by Charlotte English

Detective. Judge. Executioner. Konrad Savast is the Malykant: foremost and most secret servant of the God of Death. His job? To track down the foulest of murderers and bring them to The Malykt's Justice. No mercy. No quarter. The Rostikov Legacy: When Konrad discovers the body of a wealthy society hostess lying in the cold, mist-shrouded reaches of the Bone Forest, the pressure is on to find her killer. Can he catch the killer without revealing himself as the Malykant? The Ivanov ... more

Saving Ferris

by A R Kennedy

After Cecilia’s husband dies, she’s forced to become Ferris’s caregiver, something she does not immediately warm to. But when his life is threatened by an intruder, she shoots the intruder to save the golden retriever. Police Chief Holden Owens thinks Cecilia acted lawfully, but few agree. The prosecutor feels that Cecilia has committed murder, not self defense. In the eyes of the law, one can use lethal force to protect themselves and others, but not property. Pets are considered property. ... more

The Canonical Order

by T.R. Kurtz

When a sniper’s bullet leaves the Pope incapacitated, ex-CIA and Vatican intelligence operative Chad Stryker launches a one-man counteroffensive against radical Islamic terrorists bent on fulfilling an ancient Islamic prophesy to draw the West into an apocalyptic holy war. Stryker uses all of the resources of the Canonical Order, a secret Catholic Church intelligence organization with roots in the paramilitary Knights of Malta and the intelligence networks of the Jesuits, to stop a radical Islam... more

The Strange Curse of Breda

by Steven Arnett

It’s 1971 and a horrible murder has occurred near the town of Breda in west Michigan. A young woman, Jane Lucas, has been dragged into the woods and stabbed. The letters ZOSO from the Led Zeppelin album have been written in blood on her waist, which leads the police to think it might be a cult murder. Suspicion falls on the commune located on a farm near the town. The shock and horror townspeople feel after that murder, though, are nothing compared to the shock and horror people feel when anothe... more

The Primitives

by Ken Varnold

In the small town of Bonnet's Landing, PA, the lives of seven people are about to change. For two couples, Michael and Helen Dempsey, and Peter and Lenore Margand, the facades of their marriages will be torn away. A series of grisly murders sets the town on edge. As the Rev. Noah Mathis and his wife Esther minister to the community, the small town's lone detective, Savile Bateau, a twenty year veteran of the Pittsburgh PD, is soon overwhelmed at the number of bodies that begin to turn up. At the... more

Material Witness: The Drew Smith Series

by Norwood Holland

The Memories of Misty

by Amelia Keldan

Joan Goodfellow is focused on her career, her lover and making money. Until the day she remembers Misty. A stranger’s wild and wanton musings begin to invade Joan’s mind - fighting for dominance over her own ordered and sensible thoughts. Who is Misty...and why is she suddenly affecting every aspect of Joan’s mundane and predictable life?

Dogs of Zamphir

by Henry Stark

In the magic forest of Zamphir, there lives a community of some 700 dogs. It is a well-run, happy, democratic community protected by a team of trained guard dogs. One day, in a terrible lapse of attention, the guards allow a roving band of coyotes to steal the food stored for the winter months. Rather than admit their error, the guards, influenced by two criminal dogs, develop a plan to blame a small group of short-tailed dogs for the theft. The plan works and the short-tailed dogs are exiled t... more

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